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Adam M. Gonzalez, PhD, CSCS
New research is refining how we think about training and nutrition. Get the truth behind the "anabolic window," how much protein you need to eat, and more!
Name: Adam M. Gonzalez, PhD, CSCS
Education: Ph.D. Exercise Physiology from the University of Central Florida
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It's kind of hip these days for coaches and gym-goers to scoff at scholarly databases like PubMed—and really, studies altogether—as sources of fitness info. "Naw, I'll stick to what works in the gym," they say—as if that's something simple that never changes! Luckily, you don't have to have it one way or the other.
In recent years, a number of well-designed studies have taken aim at some of the most tightly held gym "laws" about nutrition, intensity, and supplementation. In nearly all cases, they didn't disprove what you're probably doing right now, but rather refined it, opening up new ways to build mass, get lean, and eat right, with less stress. This is science you can put to work right away!
Idea 1: Bigger weights will produce bigger gains
Here's what we know: Our muscles are extremely adaptive to the stimulus we apply to them, and resistance training is our strongest activator of muscle growth. But beyond that, things can get a little confusing.
For example, many people have held that the most important stimulus for muscle growth is the load placed on the muscle. It has been posited that an intensity load greater than 60 percent of your one-rep max (1RM) is absolutely necessary to elicit increases in muscle size.1,2 Others have suggested that muscle growth is maximized when lifting weights that are between 80 and 95 percent of 1RM.3 Big weights, big eating, big muscles—it all makes sense, right?
The takeaway here isn't "Don't lift heavy." It's more like, "You don't only need to lift heavy."
Recent research has us questioning these rules. Several studies have shown that the use of weights as low as 30 percent of 1RM can be equally as effective at stimulating muscle growth when performed to failure.4,5,6 Burd and colleagues had men train with either 90 percent or 30 percent of 1RM. The men using 30 percent 1RM were further divided into two subgroups: one that was matched for the work performed by the 90 percent 1RM group, and another that continued repetitions to failure using 30 percent 1RM. The results showed that muscle protein synthesis increased to the same degree in the 90 and 30 percent 1RM-to-failure groups, while the 30 percent work-matched group fell short.
How to grow muscle using light weights
Track and increase total pounds lifted
Work to failure at least some of the time
Focus on mind-muscle connection
Use intensity-boosting techniques: dropsets, slow-reps, 1-1/2 reps
Eat and supplement for muscle growth!
The takeaway here isn't "Don't lift heavy." It's more like, "You don't only need to lift heavy." These studies uncover how low-load and high-load resistance training can produce similar anabolic responses and gains in muscle size, highlighting the importance of tracking the total work you perform—as well as lifting to failure if your goal is muscle growth.
Idea 2: There's an "anabolic window"
Slugging down a post-workout protein shake after a solid workout becomes second nature to most bodybuilders. This has been ingrained in us for so long, it's become an unofficial law of the gym to use what's been called the "window of opportunity," or just the "anabolic window." But, in recent years, it's become clear that this arbitrary timeframe isn't as crucial as we once believed.
It's been known for years that when essential amino acids and carbohydrates are consumed three hours after exercise, as opposed to one hour after exercise, the effect on muscle protein synthesis is no different.7 Both time-points prove to be satisfactory for promoting muscle growth. However, what if the window was even larger—like a whole day?
In a long-term training study, Hoffman and colleagues investigated the effect of protein supplementation timing on body composition and strength measures.8 During a 10-week resistance training program, trained men consumed protein supplements either in the morning and evening, or immediately before and immediately after workouts. The timing of protein supplementation didn't provide any added benefit for the measures of body composition or strength over course of the study.
Take your shake if it's part of your gym ritual, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's any more important than everything else you eat. Protein intake over the course of the day appears to be more important in eliciting in muscle growth than proximity to a workout.
Idea 3: More protein is better
High-protein diets are finally becoming widely accepted as safe and effective for improving your physique—and it's about time! But is there an upper limit for reaping the benefits?
Here's what we know: Muscle hypertrophy occurs when muscle protein synthesis is greater than muscle protein breakdown. We also know that a high-protein meal is capable of sparking muscle protein synthesis. However, recent research has indicated that the anabolic effect reaches a plateau more quickly than many realize.
Muscle hypertrophy occurs when muscle protein synthesis is greater than muscle protein breakdown.
In a recent study, trained men weighing approximately 175 pounds drank different amounts of whey protein following a single bout of resistance exercise to investigate the ensuing anabolic effect. Muscle protein synthesis reached an upper limit with the ingestion of 20 grams of whey protein, whereas 40 grams of whey protein failed to further promote muscle protein synthesis.9
Similar parameters have been shown for other protein sources. For example, a moderate 30-gram portion of lean beef protein has shown to be equally as effective as a gut-busting 90 grams.10 Similarly, 20 grams of egg protein maximally stimulated muscle protein synthesis in men, while 40 grams of egg protein didn't provide any further benefit.11 This refractory response is known as the "muscle full" effect.
Because of the plateau effect on muscle protein synthesis, focusing on the amount of protein per meal is a better approach than the amount of protein per day. Save your money and maximize the muscle-building benefits of protein by eating around 0.12 grams per pound of body weight per meal, rather than cramming in high doses of protein to meet a daily standard.
Idea 4: Fasted cardio maximizes fat loss
Prior to consuming breakfast, it's common practice to perform aerobic exercise in an attempt to maximize fat loss. Why? Well, upon waking up from a night's sleep, the body is in a fasted state. Glycogen and insulin levels are low, and, in theory, the body should shift energy utilization away from carbohydrates, and use more stored fat for fuel.
However, a recent study showed that fasted cardio did not provide any further benefit compared to morning cardio in a fed state.12 Over the four-week study, non-obese, college-aged females followed a hypocaloric (low-calorie) diet and performed one hour of aerobic exercise three days per week. They were provided breakfast either immediately prior to exercise, or immediately following exercise. Although short-term, the results showed no difference in fat loss when comparing those who performed cardio in a fasted or fed state.
Some people take this study as a sign that you shouldn't perform fasted cardio. I wouldn't go that far. Rather, just follow personal preference, since fasted and fed cardio appear to offer similar benefits to fat loss.
However, those attempting to maintain muscle mass while losing fat should be cautious with fasted cardio. Upon waking up, our muscles are in a catabolic state, and fasted cardio can elevate the use of protein as fuel.13 These athletes should consider sipping on fast-digesting protein or BCAAs before or during morning cardio to limit muscle loss.
McDonagh, M. J. N., & Davies, C. T. M. (1984). Adaptive response of mammalian skeletal muscle to exercise with high loads. European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, 52(2), 139-155.
Wernbom, M., Augustsson, J., & Thomee, R. (2007). The influence of frequency, intensity, volume and mode of strength training on whole muscle cross-sectional area in humans. Sports Medicine, 37(3), 225-264.
Fry, A. C. (2004). The role of resistance exercise intensity on muscle fibre adaptations. Sports Medicine, 34(10), 663-679.
Burd, N. A., West, D. W., Staples, A. W., Atherton, P. J., Baker, J. M., Moore, D. R., ... & Phillips, S. M. (2010). Low-load high volume resistance exercise stimulates muscle protein synthesis more than high-load low volume resistance exercise in young men. PloS One, 5(8), e12033.
Mitchell, C. J., Churchward-Venne, T. A., West, D. W., Burd, N. A., Breen, L., Baker, S. K., & Phillips, S. M. (2012). Resistance exercise load does not determine training-mediated hypertrophic gains in young men. Journal of Applied Physiology, 113(1), 71-77.
Ogasawara, R., Loenneke, J. P., Thiebaud, R. S., & Abe, T. (2013). Low-load bench press training to fatigue results in muscle hypertrophy similar to high-load bench press training. International Journal of Clinical Medicine, 4(02), 114.
Rasmussen, B. B., Tipton, K. D., Miller, S. L., Wolf, S. E., & Wolfe, R. R. (2000). An oral essential amino acid-carbohydrate supplement enhances muscle protein anabolism after resistance exercise. Journal of Applied Physiology, 88(2), 386-392.
Hoffman, J. R., Ratamess, N. A., Tranchina, C. P., Rashti, S. L., Kang, J., & Faigenbaum, A. D. (2009). Effect of protein-supplement timing on strength, power, and body-composition changes in resistance-trained men. International Journal of Sport Nutrition, 19(2), 172.
Witard, O. C., Jackman, S. R., Breen, L., Smith, K., Selby, A., & Tipton, K. D. (2014). Myofibrillar muscle protein synthesis rates subsequent to a meal in response to increasing doses of whey protein at rest and after resistance exercise. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 99(1), 86-95.
Symons, T. B., Sheffield-Moore, M., Wolfe, R. R., & Paddon-Jones, D. (2009). A moderate serving of high-quality protein maximally stimulates skeletal muscle protein synthesis in young and elderly subjects. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 109(9), 1582-1586.
Moore, D. R., Robinson, M. J., Fry, J. L., Tang, J. E., Glover, E. I., Wilkinson, S. B., ... & Phillips, S. M. (2009). Ingested protein dose response of muscle and albumin protein synthesis after resistance exercise in young men. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89(1), 161-168.
Schoenfeld, B. J., Aragon, A. A., Wilborn, C. D., Krieger, J. W., & Sonmez, G. T. (2014). Body composition changes associated with fasted versus non-fasted aerobic exercise. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 11(1), 54.
Lemon, P. W., & Nagle, F. J. (1980). Effects of exercise on protein and amino acid metabolism. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 13(3), 141-149.
Adam M. Gonzales, PhD has published over 90 peer-reviewed research articles and abstracts on applied exercise physiology and sports nutrition.

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Lions survive Wheaton comeback, complete season sweep
Charlie Boyle turned on the accelerators in the fourth quarter as Emerson's women's basketball team nearly squandered a 19-point lead on its way to the season sweep over Wheaton on Wednesday, winning 65-59.
After a dominating 25-10 performance in the first quarter, the Lions struggled to keep possession in the second, picking up six of their nine first-half turnovers. The Lyons of Wheaton came roaring back with a 14-2 run in the last three and a half minutes of the second, then cut their deficit to one by the end of the third, 46-45.
But Emerson never lost its lead, as Boyle broke free.
Fighting through double teams and hard contact in the paint, the six-foot center made her first bucket in over 19 minutes and earned eight of her 12 points in the final period via layups, jump shots, and free throws. A block and a steal on defense helped her teammates contribute the other 11 points in the quarter and survive a late surge from the Lyons in the closing minutes.
"We found a way to get around it," Boyle said. "We swung it opposite and then I sealed the inside."
The final score is nearly identical to the result of the squad's first bout on Jan. 4, when visiting Emerson won 64-59.
It is the first time Emerson has won both its regular season matchups against Wheaton since joining the NEWMAC, moving ahead of Wheaton in the conference standings to ninth, with five games remaining.
"We had to win, we were supposed to win this game," head coach Bill Gould said. "Hopefully we win on Saturday, and I think the Babson game on Wednesday is really going to be a big, huge game for us that'll tell us where we're at."
The Lions came out of the gate firing at the Bobbi Brown and Steve Plofker Gym. Boyle got the action started with a jumper, then Sierra Ducey kissed one off the glass, followed by a deep two from Natalie Busch, who is also the Beacon's deputy arts editor. Then Maya Savino put up back-to-back layups and they led 10-0, while Eastin Ashby's four steals aided in holding the Lyons scoreless for the first five minutes of the contest.
Ashby responded to Wheaton's first points, scored by Sophia Black, by nailing the first three-pointer of the game. Gould made his first substitutions at 3:52, checking in Elizabeth Horan who scored the team's next eight points, and all of her points of the evening, with a layup and back-to-back threes.
At the first break, eight different Lions had tallied a bucket, and Emerson earned its second highest first quarter point total of the season, behind its Nov. 19 victory over Simmons when the team scored 26.
It was more of the same early in the second frame. With a 15-point lead, Gould went with three of his original starters in Savino, Ducey, and Boyle, but called up freshmen Leena Kardacz and Kate Foultz as well. The defense forced two shot clock violations within 90 seconds of each other, and with their offense jumped out their largest lead of the contest at 29-10 with 5:42 left in the half.
Wheaton scored its first points of the quarter at 5:08 with a shot from Natalie Wind; then a three-pointer from Jill Bodreau, an eight-point run from Black, and Bodreau again from the stripe cut Emerson's lead to single digits, 33-24. Busch ended a 6-0 run from the Lyons and the score held 36-25 at halftime.
"I think we just played a ridiculously good first quarter and I don't think we can expect to play that way every time," Gould said. "They came out a little bit aggressive in the second quarter, and then what I think happened is natural when you're winning a game by so much. Even when you're trying not to there's a tendency to go, 'Okay we got it,' and you lessen your intensity a little bit. You kind of expect that a little bit but I think we did it a little too long."
Wheaton edged closer in the third, outscoring Emerson 19-11. Black converted on both of her free throws and trailed by two with 59.7 seconds left. After a single Quinn Madden free throw, Abby Hamilton received a backdoor pass from Black with 19 seconds lefts and made the easy bucket to pull within one for the start of the final quarter.
Over a minute into the fourth, Boyle reemerged after rejecting a Wheaton shot attempt and found the hoop twice in as many attempts to stretch the lead to five. Busch nailed one from the perimeter and repeated it after two Boyle free throws. It was 58-47 with 3:32 remaining before the Lyons scored.
In a late comeback, Black earned her last field goal and game-high 17 points, Bodreau made her third from beyond the arc, and Hamilton brought the margin to four with another backdoor from Black with 2:26 to go.
But five free throws from Savino in the last 20 seconds were enough to get past one last three from Bodreau and hold off the Lyons for the victory.
Busch earned team-high honors with 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting and 3-of-4 from downtown. Savino followed with 14 in a game-high 34 minutes on 4-of-6 shooting and 6-of-7 from the charity stripe. Ducey was held to just two points but contributed nine rebounds, four assists, and two blocks. Boyle also hauled down nine boards, and her 12 points came on 5-of-8 from the floor.
Emerson (10-10, 3-8) travels to Mount Holyoke College (2-17, 0-12) Saturday for a 1 p.m. game.
Deputy arts editor Natalie Busch, who plays on Emerson's women's basketball team, did not edit this story.
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Joseph Zinn Christensen (1944-1998) was born March 15, 1944 in Ogden, Utah. After studies with Faye Hanson, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree (1967) with a major in Music Education from the University of Michigan (where he studied trumpet with Clifford Lillya and a Master of Music degree (1968) with a major in Music Education and a minor in psychology from the University of Michigan.
Prior to coming to Iowa State University, he taught at Eastern Michigan University (1968) and Louisiana Tech University (1968-1973). Christensen served Iowa State as an Assistant Professor of Music and Assistant Director of Bands (1973-1978), and as an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Bands (1979 to 1998), a total of twenty-five years. The Iowa State band program included nine bands and five jazz combos.
"Mr. C" conducted and adjudicated bands throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He served as president of the Big 8 Band Directors Association, the Iowa Music Educators Association, and the Iowa Bandmasters Association. He was co-chairman of the Iowan's Alliance for Arts Education and Vice President of the Ames International Orchestra Association.
Christensen received a Faculty Citation from Iowa State University in 1993. He was an honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society, and received the National Band Association Citation of Excellence in March, 1997. He died September 17, 1998.
Personal Observations: "Mr. C," as his students called him, was one of the finest musicians and motivators I have met. He lit a fire at Iowa State — within a few months of his arrival every trumpet major began practicing three hours a day on top of their rehearsals. He was willing to go an extra mile at all times: extra lessons, unscheduled conversations, evening rehearsals with my accompanists. He loaned me his Bach D trumpet, almost brand new, for a period of several months while I prepared baroque solo literature. I studied with Mr. C for two years.
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Who owns the 'cuse'? Inside a trademark fight between SU and a small business
Updated Aug 07, 2019; Posted Aug 06, 2019
Cuse Juice, an orange liqueur made by Lock 1 Distilling in Phoenix N.Y., will be taken off the market following a trademark objection by Syracuse University, which has a line of fruit drinks called 'Cuse Juice at some of its dining halls.
By Don Cazentre | dcazentre@nyup.com
In the spring of 1996, the Syracuse Orange basketball team made it to the Final Four, losing to Kentucky in the national championship game. The team, led by John Wallace, adopted a memorable catch phrase during its successful run:
"The Cuse is in the House."
A few months later, in July 1996, Syracuse University applied for and later secured a trademark for the word " 'Cuse." The trademark specifically covers the use of the typed word " 'Cuse" on clothing, like hats and T-shirts.
That is the oldest of nine active or pending trademarks featuring the word "Cuse" on file at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Another ten Cuse-related trademark applications have been abandoned or cancelled.
SU recently threatened legal action against a small Oswego County distillery, which last year introduced a vodka-based orange liqueur called Cuse Juice. The distillery has agreed to discontinue the product, saying it cannot afford to fight a legal battle with the big university.
That raises the question: Can a person, business or institution own the word "cuse?"
It's certainly clear the term can be registered as a trademark.
Six of the nine active or pending "Cuse" trademarks are registered to Syracuse University. The newest, filed last month and still pending approval, is for a line of fruit-based beverages called 'Cuse Juice.
One of the abandoned "Cuse" trademarks was for the other Cuse Juice -- the liqueur produced since last summer by Lock 1 Distilling Co. in Phoenix, Oswego County.
Lock 1 owner Brenden Backus announced on July 27 that he is taking his Cuse Juice off the market, and abandoning his trademark application, because SU threatened legal action. Under an agreement with SU, Lock 1 will sell Cuse Juice only until the existing inventory runs out -- or no later than Oct. 1.
This trademark, applied for in 1996 and registered in 1997, is the oldest on file featuring the word "cuse" at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Syracuse University uses it for clothing, like hats and shirts. (Screenshot from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office).
SU did not file its application for the 'Cuse Juice trademark until July 16, about a week after it reached the agreement with Lock 1.
Backus said his small distillery doesn't have the resources needed to fight SU. He's considering reintroducing the liqueur under a new name, but it will take time and money to get new state and federal label and license approvals.
SU released a statement, which said, in part: "As an institution of higher education with many constituents, we have an obligation to protect our brand and image." SU also suggested Lock 1 could simply change the name.
The 'cuse as a trademark
It appears "cuse" has been used since at least the 1980s to describe either the city or the university and its sports teams, according to Post-Standard archives. One of the earliest uses was in a local superhero comic strip created in 1982 by Joe Orsak: "Captain 'Cuse" debuted in the Syracuse New Times and later appeared in the Herald-Journal/Herald American.
It's now found on a variety of local businesses and services, from food makers like SalsaCuse and SyrachaCuse, to the convenience store Casa de 'Cuse off Westcott Street to Cusetown Bail Bonds in Syracuse and Utica.
In the eyes of the federal government, "Cuse" can and has been trademarked for specific goods or services.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has 19 files for trademarks featuring the word "cuse." Nine are "live," meaning they are registered or pending approval, and 10 are "dead," meaning they've been abandoned or cancelled. (Screenshot from USPTO).
In addition to its pending mark for fruit juice beverages, served since 2017 in some of its dining halls, and its registered mark for the 1996 clothing line, SU has active trademarks for:
-- Cuse.com and Cuse TV, two media outlets devoted to Orange sports. The university applied for those in 2014 and registered them in 2015.
-- CuseFunder, used for charitable purposes. It was registered in 2014.
-- S Basketball Elite Cuse, used for clothing. It was registered in 2018.
There are three non-SU active trademarks or applications: SyrachaCuse registered that name, without opposition, for its hot sauce in 2017. SyrachaCuse co-owner Mike Sharlow said he has not heard from SU about the name, but had no further comment.
Two others, both from North Carolina, are pending: A company called Battle Tested in Raleigh. N.C. is seeking a trademark for Barbe'cuse, a series of community food festivals. Lee Roberts of Moorseville, N.C. is seeking to register Cuse Camp for physical fitness and exercise classes.
Both of those applications were filed this summer, and the trademark office has not yet taken the step of determining whether there is or will be opposition.
Among the "dead" or abandoned cuse-related trademarks, SU had at least three: They were 'Cuse in the House, abandoned in 2013; Cusetown, abandoned in 2014; and Electro Cuse, abandoned in 2016.
The other abandoned or cancelled cuse trademark applications were filed by people and companies unrelated to the university. Examples include Cuse Dawgz and Tour de Cuse. In 2011, a Fayetteville man abandoned an attempt to register a trademark for "The Cuse is in the House" to be used on flags.
Trademarks and the law
It's likely that most of the businesses using the word "cuse" have never felt the need to seek a trademark.
That's understandable, since trademarks are only strictly necessary for good or services that are sold across state lines, said Fernando Torres, chief economist for IPMetrics, a San Diego-based company that consults on trademark, patent and other intellectual property issues.
"Many times you can use a name and go about your business without any trouble," Torres said.
Trademarks, he said, can be registered for words or terms related to specific goods and services, regardless of whether they are also used more generically by the public. Categories for good and services are spelled out in trademark law -- they can include goods like clothing, food or cars, and services like banks or barbershops, and many more.
Torres uses the example of the word "dove." Generically, it's a bird. But it is also registered as a trademark by one company for soap, and another separate company for chocolate.
The key point of federal trademark law, he said, is to prevent confusion in the mind of the consumer.
"In that case (Dove), the assumption is no one will confuse soap and chocolate," Torres said.
In the case of "cuse," then, the issue is whether the use by one company for a specific good or service -- like Lock 1′s liqueur -- could be confused with a trademark held, for example, by Syracuse University for other goods and services.
SU has no trademark for "cuse" related to an alcoholic beverage -- and didn't even apply for one for a beverage of any kind until filing its application after settling with Lock 1.
But whether there could still be confusion is a case that a persuasive lawyer could make to a trademark judge, Torres said.
"The question is whether the consumer is likely to be confused about who is putting out that good or service," Torres said. "Is the university making or endorsing this liquor?"
Lock 1′s Cuse Juice label may appear to some people to use the colors of SU's sports teams -- blue and orange -- although Backus says they are in fact orange and purple. Confusion over that could weigh against the distillery. So could the nationally recognized "fame" or reputation of the university.
There is some precedent in the case files at the trademark office supporting SU's claim to the word "cuse." In 2012, two residents of Horseheads, N.Y., in the Southern Tier, attempted to get a trademark for the words "Cuse Nation," to be used for clothing.
They eventually abandoned the application. Lawyers for the trademark office had indicated they would face a steep challenge in trying to secure the trademark.
"The examining attorney notes that the mark employs the term 'CUSE rather than "Syracuse," the 2012 case file states. "The term at issue, however, need not be the actual, legal name of the party falsely associated with applicant's mark to be unregistrable. ... The term instead must be so uniquely and unmistakably associated with the named party as to constitute that party's name or identity."
"... In this case, the examining attorney has attached evidence from the online Wikipedia encyclopedia which for the "Syracuse University" entry, which begins by stating the following: 'Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU, is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States.' This evidence not only shows that 'CUSE is a common nickname for Syracuse University, but also that Syracuse University is a famous institution, founded in 1870, with over 20,000 students (the vice president of the United States being one alumnus) and athletically long a member of the Big East Conference and soon to belong to the ACC. All of this shows that the fame or reputation of Syracuse University is of such a nature that a connection with Syracuse University would be presumed when applicant's mark is used on its goods."
That case, of course, had to do with a trademark for clothing, which SU already had. Could the same argument be made for liquor, which SU does not have a trademark for?
Again, according to Torres, the question would come down to potential consumer confusion.
"I'm looking at Google and I see that Syracuse University has been named the top party school in the country," Torres said Monday. "So someone might look at this alcoholic beverage and make that connection. That's what you have to consider."
Don Cazentre writes for NYup.com, syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. Reach him at dcazentre@nyup.com, or follow him at NYup.com, on Twitter or Facebook.


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You also may choose to provide a gift through your estate by naming NBCC as a beneficiary in your will. We have been humbled and inspired by our supporters who have decided to leave a legacy of hope for others impacted by breast cancer. It is one of the most impactful ways of memorializing loved ones while continuing to renew our advocacy work for years to come. You and your family also may choose to be recognized on the Face of Breast Cancer® online exhibitions, providing the faces and stories of inspiration and a call to action for others to follow.
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Tesla is accusing a former employee of stealing intellectual property worth hundreds of millions of dollars and sharing it with a Chinese rival.
The electric car maker filed a lawsuit in the United States on Thursday, alleging that engineer Guangzhi Cao stole key details from Tesla's self-driving car project and took them to Xiaopeng Motors, a Chinese electric vehicle startup. Elon Musk's company is seeking damages and to stop Cao from using the information.
Tesla says Cao uploaded complete copies of the company's self-driving source code to his personal Apple iCloud account. He took more than 300,000 files and directories, according to a complaint filed in US District Court in California.
After accepting a job with Xiaopeng, Cao then deleted 120,000 files from his work computer and disconnected his iCloud account from it, the complaint says. He then repeatedly logged into Tesla's networks and cleared his browser history before leaving Tesla in early January.
Cao now works at XMotors, Xiaopeng's US subsidiary.
"XMotors fully respects any third-party's intellectual property rights and confidential information," it said.
Cao could not immediately be reached for comment.
Chinese efforts to get hold of American companies' tech secrets are a sensitive issue. It's one of the main reasons cited by the Trump administration for launching a trade war with China last year.
The Tesla lawsuit is the second time in less than a year that someone hired by Xiaopeng has been accused of stealing self-driving trade secrets from a big US tech firm.
In July, engineer Xiaolang Zhang was arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets from Apple's self-driving project. Xiaopeng said that no Apple-related information was transferred to the company, and that Zhang had been dismissed. Zhang has pleaded not guilty.
Xiaopeng has so far raised 100 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) from some of Asia's biggest tech companies, including Alibaba, Foxconn and Xiaomi. It started selling its first and only electric vehicle, the XPeng G3, in China in December. The SUV includes a self-driving feature called X-Pilot. Tesla's self-driving feature is called Autopilot.
Tesla is accusing the Chinese company of blatant theft, saying in the complaint that it "has transparently imitated Tesla's design, technology, and even its business model" and that XMotors currently employs at least five of Tesla's former Autopilot employees, including Cao.
"Tesla believes Cao and his new employer, XMotors, will continue to have unfettered access to Tesla's marquee technology, the product of more than five years' work and … hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, which they have no legal right to possess," the complaint says.
The US company is suing Cao for punitive damages and seeking a court order to prevent him from retaining and using Tesla's trade secrets and confidential information.
There's a lot of Tesla already inside Xiaopeng's car, according to Tu Le, founder of research firm Sino Auto Insights.
"The XPeng G3 is in a lot of ways a poor man's Tesla Model X," he said.


Starting as a busker I learned to play guitar and harmonica and practised for hours on end.That`s how i learned the craft of making music. One by one after a while they wanted me to play in clubs and pubs. In 2011 I started a band: Who Killed Peter Merian.We played concerts around Switzerland and in Germany . Besides that, (In my heart was still a blues and folksinger) i played some folk and blues music in bars, pubs, weddings and continued busking in the streets. After playing concerts in Berlin, London, Liverpool and Paris I started becoming passionate for American folk and Blues music more and more. At that point, In June 2013 we reached the peak of our short career, we were the the opening act for MANFRED MAN`S EARTH BAND and URIAH HEEP at Liestal Air.
It was my last concert for a really long time….
They took me to the hospital and my life was pretty much put on hold ever since. Now after 3,5 years, a lot of chemo therapy, never ending hospitalstays and a stock cell transplant I defeated the cancer! now i feel healthy enough to start playing again.�I`M HAPPY TO TELL YOU: I`M BACK AND I`M READY TO ROCK ON !!


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How would you make a major faction change work in WoW without breaking the leveling experience?
By Michael "Mitch" Mitchell
@MitchFizzl
More and more lately, World of Warcraft seems to be headed for some sort of major change in factions as we know them. Even ignoring the general complaints from some — but not all — players that the faction conflict is outdated, the game itself is dropping hints left and right. The most recent of those hints came from the newly released cinematic players will see after they finish the later steps in the War Campaign. Without spoiling it too much, there's a very important conversation toward the end of the cinematic that feels like it's screaming, "WE DON'T NEED FACTIONS ANYMORE!" Seriously, it's either a major misdirect or some very heavy foreshadowing.
But every time the conversation of no factions — or a third faction, for that matter — comes up, I can't figure out a good way to make it work without having another Cataclysm-style revamp of everything that exists in the game now. Right now, a large portion of the 1 through 60 experience is built around the faction conflict. Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King are less on that side, but then Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria content pick it right back up. And, of course, Battle for Azeroth is built around it more than any other expansion. The faction conflict is built into the DNA of the game.
The closest I've come to a "solution" would be making the player level to 120 (or whatever the equivalent after a potential level squish would be), experience the full story of BFA, and then… let them pick a new faction? Go on faction-less? Defect to a third faction? Even my best approach isn't perfect. And let's say Blizzard did do something where you only experienced the faction shake-up after a certain level — what happens to characters who are boosted?
It's pretty much tradition at this point that you can boost to the latest content, so that would mean new players would be in a faction-less (or, again, three-faction) world with low-level quests still tied to the old faction boundaries. Would they just not be able to do them? Like I said, I can never get over this hurdle when trying to come up with a wholly different World of Warcraft. But maybe you can! How would you do it?
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Q: jQuery: combining hashchange with a click function I'm having some trouble getting the hashchange function to work how I want it to. I currently have a masonry grid of divs, with a clearing div after every row (of 4), which is hidden. Clicking on one of the divs shows the closest clearing div, appends the relevant content inside it and reloads the masonry around it.
This all works fine, but as I want to link to these divs that are being show from other pages I want to attach hashes to the functions. The hashes are being added to the URL, but if you load the URL it fails to run the function and show the relevant divs.
Here's a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/EV7yg/1/

jQuery:
$(document).ready(function () {
$(window).hashchange( function(){

    $(".content-block-footer").click(function () {

        $('.content-block-preview').hide();
        var previewForThis = $(this).parent(".content-block-small").nextAll('.content-preview:first');
        var otherPreviews = $(this).parent(".content-block-small").siblings('.content-preview').not(previewForThis);
        otherPreviews
            .addClass('excluded') // exclude other previews from masonry layout
            .hide();
        previewForThis
            .removeClass('excluded')
            .append($('#content-preview' + $(this).attr('hook')).show())
            .hide()
            .delay(400)
            .fadeIn("slow");
        $('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: $(this).offset().top-95 }, 'slow');
        $('#block-wrap').masonry('reload');
    });
    });
$(window).hashchange();
});

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Is it possible to attach hashes to such click functions and link to these hashes from exterior pages (showing the relevant content)?

A: It doesn't make sense to put a click event handler into a hashchange event.
Have look at my forked fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/y9X2D/35/
You can check the hash handling over the following url:
http://fiddle.jshell.net/y9X2D/35/show/
I just excluded the your click event code into a seperate function.
The click event now changes the url hash which fires the hashchange event.
the hashchange event then calls showDetail.
Of course you can also call showDetail directly without changing the hash.
$(window).hashchange( function(){
    var hash = location.hash;
   if(hash)
   {
    var element = $('.content-block-footer[hook="'+hash.substring(1)+'"]');
     if(!element) element = $('.content-block-footer').first();
    showDetail(element);
   } else {
    element = $('.content-block-footer').first();
    showDetail(element);
   }
});

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(window).hashchange();

    $(".content-block-footer").click(function () {
        document.location.hash = $(this).attr('hook');
    });
});

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Our Escorted tours in Croatia includes very unique touring of the highlights of Croatia's most famous cities – Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, Pula, Rovinj, Zagreb, and a memorable tour of National Parks: Plitvice Lakes waterfalls and Brijuni Islands, plus day trip to Croatian islands.
You can also combine one of our land escorted tour with Croatian island cruising.
This fascinating city, combines the best of Eastern and Western Europe and lies on routes between the Adriatic coast and Central Europe.
Walk through streets of Lower Town and discover beautiful buildings of Habsburg era with ornate facades, squares and monuments. Take the ride with the smallest funicular in world to explore Upper Town medieval core of Zagreb. Visit St. Mark's Church with extraordinary colorful roof and monumental masterpiece of the tallest Cathedral in Croatia with massive twin spires and 800-year-old treasury. Enjoy numerous museums and galleries and beautiful green oases in hart of the city. Visit Mirogoj cemetery with its beautiful architecture and one of the most beautiful gardens in Europe. Taste traditional culinary specialities and learn more about unique licitar heart..
Visit fairytale castles in Zagreb surrounding, baroque town Varazdin and Ljubljana- capital of Slovenia on our day trip from Zagreb.
Explore Split living heart – Diocletian's Palace, once the home of Roman Emperor Diocletian, a complex so huge it later became a fortified town. Visit the Silver Gate, the Cathedral, and the Bell Tower of St. Dominus. Discover the seaside promenade of Split, the lively open green market and the Marmont shopping street . Visit Split's synagogue – the third-oldest synagogue in Europe that's still in use. Enjoy evening in typical Dalmatian tavern and learn about unique Dalmatian sport activities Picigin and Briskula.
Cruise with private yacht to islands Hvar, Vis, Brac .. and enjoy beautiful beaches and unique cultural treasure.
Explore the narrow streets and historical buildings of fascinating Medieval town of Trogir.
Enjoy the delightful city of Dubrovnik and walk along its ancient city walls, stroll the Stradun and enjoy the sightseeing tour of the Rector's Palace, Bell Tower Clock, Orlando's Column and the Sponza Palace. Visit the Dominican and Franciscan Monasteries and learn about the oldest pharmacy in the world.
Relax in Renaissance gardens in beautiful Arboretum and take a yacht cruise to Elaphite Islands, National Park Mljet and Korcula island – the birth place of Marko Polo. Jump in to the cable car and have magnificent view to the Old Town and fairytale island Lokrum.
Enjoy the green oasis with many medieval hill villages, vineyards, olive groves and picturesque seaside towns. Taste the truffles from the famous Motovun forest while enjoying the unique Istrian wines.
Visit Rovinj – one of the most picturesque towns in the Mediterranean with its pastel-colored houses. Explore Euphrasian Basilica in Porec – the best examples of early Byzantine architecture in the Mediterranean famous for the most amazing and UNESCO heritage mosaics.
Marvel the amphitheater Pula – the sixth largest surviving Roman arena in world. Visit Opatija , first resort of the Austro Hungarian Monarchy, and enjoy romantic walk on seaside promenade . Take a boat cruise to National Park Brioni Island or our day excursion to Venice.
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As mentioned earlier in the course, we will devote a section to computational complexity because this is a key thing to consider when designing almost any software solution - from a small program to big software systems. Let's begin with some informal explanations of what it is and why it is so important for your tech interviews.
Imagine that you are given a task to generate all palindromes using a set of N latin letters. One brute force solution that comes to mind is to generate all permutations of the N letters and to check for each one of them if it's a palindrome. Some people could say that the task is easy because this solution is easy to come up with. However, to generate all permutations of the N letters you would need to generate N! words. For even small values of N this becomes a solution, which will not finish in a reasonable amount of time. Because of that we will need to design a better approach, which can compute the answer much faster.
At tech interviews you will have to compute and explain the time and memory complexity of your solutions quite often. This is something that will show your interviewer that you can evaluate if a solution is feasible given the input size. In real life this is also a very useful skill. Actually, in our opinion, it's a must-have skill for good software engineers.
Two resources that are limited for our programs are time and memory. Of course there are others but these two are usually the main constraints to our solutions. That is why in this section we will focus on time and memory complexity. We will talk about why they are things that you should definitely be able to understand and measure at a tech interview. Of course, we will also provide some explanations and examples to help you understand them better.


[CONT](VC/RC):During your turn, if a new card was put into your damage zone this turn, all of the units in your front row get [Power]+3000. [ACT](Damage zone):If your opponent's vanguard is grade 3 or greater, and this card is face up, COST [put the top card of your deck into your damage zone face down], and ride this card as [Stand].
Sadly her first skill is not stackable, only granting 3k once if you loaded a card to the damage zone this turn. This will help push the 9k attackers to 12k so they can hit non-Force VGs alone but all things considered you're still not in a great place if you rid this first. Obviously also there to get out of any Zanbaku shenanigans the opponent decides to pull on you with her second skill but really it's kind of situational. if nothing else at least it gives Metatron something to ride on top of to proc her skills in full.
For Metatron's sake only if nothing else she's going to be run. Whether it's 2 or 4 depends on how much you value Mobile Hospital Feather Palace at. I'd say quite a bit since otherwise you are screwed for finishers in AF, so at least you shouldn't need to shell out too much for this.


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package org.cogaen.logging;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.cogaen.core.AbstractService;
import org.cogaen.core.Core;
import org.cogaen.name.CogaenId;

public abstract class LoggingService extends AbstractService {

	public static final CogaenId ID = new CogaenId("org.cogaen.time.LoggingService");
	public static enum Priority {DEBUG, INFO, NOTICE, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, ALERT, EMERGENCY};
	public static LogFilter INFO_LEVEL_FILTER = new LevelFilter(Priority.INFO);
	public static LogFilter NOTICE_LEVEL_FILTER = new LevelFilter(Priority.NOTICE);
	public static LogFilter WARNING_LEVEL_FILTER = new LevelFilter(Priority.WARNING);
	public static LogFilter ERROR_LEVEL_FILTER = new LevelFilter(Priority.ERROR);
	public static LogFilter CRITICAL_LEVEL_FILTER = new LevelFilter(Priority.CRITICAL);
	public static LogFilter ALERT_LEVEL_FILTER = new LevelFilter(Priority.ALERT);
	public static LogFilter EMERGENCY_LEVEL_FILTER = new LevelFilter(Priority.EMERGENCY);

	public List<LogFilter> filters = new ArrayList<LogFilter>();
	public List<LogListener> listeners = new ArrayList<LogListener>();

	protected abstract void doLog(Priority priority, String source, String message);

	public static LoggingService getInstance(Core core) {
		return (LoggingService) core.getService(ID);
	}

	@Override
	public final CogaenId getId() {
		return ID;
	}

	public final void addListener(LogListener listener) {
		this.listeners.add(listener);
	}

	public final void removeListener(LogListener listener) {
		this.listeners.remove(listener);
	}

	public final void addFilter(LogFilter filter) {
		this.filters.add(filter);
	}

	public final void removeFilter(LogFilter filter) {
		this.filters.remove(filter);
	}

	public final void removeAllFilters() {
		this.filters.clear();
	}

	private void filterLog(Priority priority, String source, String message) {
		for (LogFilter filter : this.filters) {
			if (!filter.accept(priority, source, message)) {
				return;
			}
		}

		doLog(priority, source, message);
		for (LogListener listener : this.listeners) {
			listener.handleLogMessage(priority, source, message);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with specified priority.
	 *
	 * @param priority priority of this logging entry.
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void log(Priority priority, String source, String message) {
		filterLog(priority, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'debug'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logDebug(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.DEBUG, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'info'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logInfo(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.INFO, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'notice'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logNotice(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.NOTICE, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'warning'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logWarning(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.WARNING, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'error'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logError(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.ERROR, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'critical'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logCritical(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.CRITICAL, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'alert'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logAlert(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.ALERT, source, message);
	}

	/**
	 * Logs a message with priority 'emergency'.
	 *
	 * @param source logging source of this message.
	 * @param message message text to be logged.
	 */
	public final void logEmergency(String source, String message) {
		filterLog(Priority.EMERGENCY, source, message);
	}
}

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Flipkart on Friday announced the acquisition of PhonePe, a city-based mobile payments company co-founded by the e-commerce giant\'s two former employees.
Bengaluru : Flipkart on Friday announced the acquisition of PhonePe, a city-based mobile payments company co-founded by the e-commerce giant's two former employees. PhonePe, co-founded by Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, is building India's first Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based product.
UPI, planned to go live in April, will allow users to transact using their unique identification and mobile phone number or virtual payments address without sharing any other bank details. In contrast to the present payments process, which involves entering numerous account/card details and multi-level interventions, UPI will provide a highly secure hassle-free digital payments experience, Flipkart said.
Anyone holding an active bank account can easily perform instant transactions by simply using their mobile phone, it said in a release. Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal said payments has been one of the biggest hurdles for mass adoption of online shopping in India, adding, UPI has the potential of transforming the entire payments ecosystem in the country.
The acquisition of PhonePe is in line with Flipkart's focus on driving innovation on the payments front, he said. Nigam said PhonePe's mission is to significantly improve the online and offline digital payments experience for millions of Indian customers.
"We are really excited to merge with Flipkart and get access to one of the largest consumer bases in the country, which will allow us to realize our vision at a much larger scale," he said. The PhonePe team will transition to Flipkart but will function as an independent business unit, the release said.


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In 1959-1962, Ray Charles's career was in the heavens, and this definitive set prepared by Joël Dufour draws on the most intense period of Ray's recordings. The ability of "The Genius" to produce new things artistically could no longer be judged by the same standards, with Ray showing rare eclecticism. Expressing his talents without reserve, he delivered his greatest hits, from "Georgia on My Mind" to "Hit The Road Jack" and "Unchain My Heart"... The titles here are precious evidence of the period when a very gifted rhythm & blues artist transformed into the eternal idol of pop.
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Flathead High School has a new football coach.
Defensive coordinator Matt Upham was announced as the new head football coach on Feb. 26 to replace coach Kyle Samson, who left to become a college football coach at Montana Tech in Butte.
Coach Upham has been Flathead's defensive coordinator for the past four years under former head coach Kyle Samson. During Coach Upham's four years tenure as defensive coordinator, he led the No. 1 ranked defense in 2017 and was ranked in the top five for the 2018 season, which saw the Braves play in the state championship game and lose by just one possession.
Coach Upham joined the Flathead Braves staff in the 2014 season. Out of his four years, he helped the Braves to three playoff appearances, including Flathead's first home playoff game since 2005.
Coach Upham's defense racked up 44 sacks and averaged 3.4 sacks per game last season. Upham has three returning All-State players and two returning All-Conference players.
Coach Upham was the quarterback at Helena High. He passed 851 yards, rushed for 709 yards and tallied 18 touchdowns for the Bengals in his senior season in 2008.
Coach Upham attended Carroll College, where he played safety. Upham recorded 186 total tackles in his five-year career and helped lead the Saints to a Frontier Conference Championship in 2013. Upham was coached by legendary Coach Mike Van Diest, who had an overall record of 203-54 from 1999-2018. Coach Van Diest won six NAIA National Championships and 14 Frontier Conference championships over 19 years.
The Braves will be looking to build upon a rather successful 2018 campaign.
About 380 Flathead High School upperclassmen witnessed seniors Rece O'Connell and Olivia Mohatt being crowned prom king and queen on Saturday night, March 16, at the National Guard Armory, north of Kalispell.
Feedback of the overall experience was across the spectrum as students both had a good time and others didn't. Most said they had a god time getting ready, going out for dinner at various restaurants throughout the valley, and then attending the pro. Others said the music wasn't good to dance to and it felt awkward, until after the king and queen were crowned. After that it seemed that everyone had a good time dancing.
Thompson, who is the student body president, spent many hours painting and making decorations.
Student council members helped to prepare in the weeks prior to prom, making decorations for the "Hollywood Lights" theme both during school and after hours.
Junior Alyssa Habel was in charge of most of the planning for Prom with the assistance of Ms. Michele Paine.
"There were many contributors who, thoughtfully made donations towards the success of prom including: Home Depot, Maycon Supply, Bardwood Door and Rentals, Fred's Appliances, and Midway Rentals," Habel said.
Seniors Max Warnell, Tyler Kluesner, Brett Thompson, Spencer Christy and O'Connell were all nominees for prom king. Candidates form prom queen were Sierra Dilworth, Sadie Wilson, Cassidy Lavin, Kelli Koski, and Mohatt.
Times are changing. There have been two school-hour, in-school shootings in the United States already this year--in the first three months. Because of the emotionally-charged aftermath by politicians, activists, citizens, and students regarding school shooting incidents, it is more common for students to experience active shooter drills at school than fire drills.
And that's exactly what's been going on at Flathead High School. The drills are called run, lock, fight drills and students have been participating in them since last school year.
Before the new run, lock, fight policy, Flathead students and teachers would lock themselves in their classroom waiting for the intruder to come in. But, as incidents like the Columbine prove, simply locking yourself into a classroom could lead to easy targets for shooters. So teachers all over the U.S are training differently than before. Flathead teachers first went through the training during spring break in 2016.
This year, FHS Assistant Principal Mr. Mark Fischer has implemented planned days when teachers prepare the students for any kind of situation having to do with an intruder in the school.
"I do like the new policy because we have more options to choose from rather than lock ourselves in a room," junior Taelor Owens said.
The first option for students and teachers is to run, trying to get out of the building as fast as possible and to get away from the intruder.
"I think it's a really good policy because it gives people more of a chance to live and get away from the intruder, rather than just sitting in a room being massacred," sophomore Dakota Kempter said.
The second option is lock, when students and teachers lock themselves in the classroom, or wherever they are. They barricade the door with any object they can find so the intruder cannot get in.
The last option is to fight. If the intruder happens to come in, or comes in contact with teacher or students, they grab anything they can to protect themselves with and fight for their lives.
"I think the new policy is much more practical, in a situation where a school shooter was in the school it would seem more realistic to fight," junior Katie Foster said.
Students appear to like the run, lock, fight policy more than the old policy.
"I think the new policy is better than sitting in a room praying you won't get shot," Chase Ammirata said.
Over the past month, Flathead has been fighting off one of their most recent enemies, hackers. All over the world, these hackers have been attempting to hack into the FHS security network over 4.5 million times in January alone.
However, these hacks are not totally new to Flathead or School District 5.
"In general, schools are becoming a bigger target as many school districts do not have funding to invest in security measures as well as a lack of expertise," network system admin Jason Hecock said. Hecock has been in the district for 13 years.
Last year, as many may recall, there was a cyber attack on school district 5, specifically Columbia Falls. This attack closed down school for multiple days while the hackers infiltrating the system were being booted out.
"The issue that happened last year at Columbia Falls was a hack attempt from an outside organization and the way they did that was they scanned IP addresses. [An IP address] is a unique number to every device… An active IP address was found and they started doing what's called a brute force attack. What that is is there's hundreds of thousands of attempts at username and password combinations against that particular port that was found open. That particular port and protocol should never be open to the public facing. That was probably human error, I don't know that for sure but that would be my guess," Hecock said.
This simple possibility of a human error resulted in extreme turmoil for many attendees of Columbia Falls.
"It was bad, they had full access to their (Columbia Falls) student information system which includes all of your information from health records that we keep from grades to parent contact information. You name it, it's in there. They had access to that. So some of the things that we saw come out of that was very personal, very targeted at certain people to get an emotional sense of stress," Hecock said.
Hecock used to work in Montana's department of administration.
"I've never seen something like that in my career… From a state level I've seen some things but this one was different," he added.
However, this entire incident could've been much worse and through it, Hecock has been able to further educate teachers on keeping themselves secure. Taking precautions such as sending fake emails to test out teachers on spying out these fraudulent links. Hecock's reports show that the amount of times teachers have failed this test has drastically decreased over the duration of time he's conducted the test.
With hacks being hammered down at 159,000 attempts daily on average, it's easy to see how security must be a number one priority for the school districts. A single open port can result in the most devastating effects, as is evidently clear by the attack at Columbia Falls. Make sure your online connection is secure. Practically everything plugged into an outlet that assists you in the online world has a port. It can be something as simple as a printer all the way to your router itself.
Make sure you're cyber-connected home is private for the safety and security of others as well as yourself.
Throughout his season his coaches, Paul Jorgensen, Dan Burfeind, and Jesse Rumsey helped Perrin work on his running strategies.
Coach Rumsey, was back to training both boys and girls this year and says that this is the first time in her 18 years of coaching that a runner has been entirely undefeated throughout a season. Rumsey also included that Ben's brother's who she also coached, did not have fully undefeated seasons.
"He ran faster times than he has ever run in his entire life," said Coach Rumsey.
However, to receive this award it took Perrin a lot of hard work to be the first runner to stay fully undefeated throughout his season.
Perrin looks forward to continue running in college. However, he hasn't made a definite decision on which college he will be attending next fall.
Decades of work in America has been undone.
In the 1950s, according to a Gallup Poll, 44 percent of Americans smoked cigarettes. Knowledge of its effects, which includes 480,000 deaths per year--the No. 1 preventable killer in America, and the subsequent public advocating for the decrease of cigarette use led to only about 14 percent of Americans who smoke cigarettes today, according to the Center for Disease Control.
Tobacco companies were dying and Americans were becoming healthier.
But, now, America is going through another similar epidemic that is sure to cripple its population and cost taxpayers millions of medical dollars to deal with in the future. Over the past few years, "JUULing" or "vaping" or using e-cigarettes has become a defiant trend across the nation.
The JUUL is a small, sleek-like device that can be easily concealed. Its physical appearance resembles a flash drive, but this little device is holding far worse than computer files. Not only is the device easily hidden, but the exhaled smoke dissipates quickly and smells nothing like cigarette smoke. Some say it smells like a chemical fruit. A JUUL contains "juice" or e-cigarette liquid that comes in a "pod," or square cartridge, each one containing about 40 milligrams of nicotine per pod, according to the JUUL website. People deem the practice healthy because the cancer-causing burning process doesn't take place. It is liquid that is vaporized, instead.
At Flathead High School alone, Kalispell Police Department School Resource Officer Dennis Bain has issued 30 minor-in-possession citations at the halfway point this school year. Last year, he issued only seven. In other words, FHS students are on track to receive about 60 MIP citations this year, almost nine times as many as last year. The MIP ticket comes with a $155 fine.
The stats are easy to understand because the industry's marketing techniques for the new nicotine addictions identified the young and ignorant minds with fruit or candy flavors and delivery systems that look like trendy gadgets, that creates an illusion that they are safe and without consequences to their health. They often can be resembled to USB flash drives, or common school supplies, like Sharpie pens. Not only do they look cool and taste good, but they are discreet enough so kids can get the natural high of getting away with something.
The ironic part about this situation is that e-cigarettes were invented a few years ago to help cigarette smokers stop smoking by giving them an alternative to slowly wean themselves off their addiction. But the product became a trend that non-smokers jumped into. On top of that, the first e-cigarettes contained about 2-3 percent nicotine, but JUUL came into the industry with their 5 percent nicotine pods and took over the lion's share of the market. And it's easy to think, when people say that it's healthy to partake in, there is no mountain of evidence from years of medical research, like we have for smoking cigarettes, because this technology has only been around for a few years. So, the long-term effects are still unknown.
Smoking a pod is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes, according to the Business Insider website.
"If you're going to JUUL, you might as well smoke a pack of cigarettes," said sophomore Hudson Magone.
Today, students are using them everywhere: bathrooms, classrooms, cars, or at social events.
The practice of, as Brownsville Station put it in 1973 and then Motley Crue again in 1985, Smokin' In The Boys Room has become so common that many students have joked about it. … And don't be surprised when another remake of the song becomes popular again.
"Change the bathrooms back to bathrooms, not JUUL rooms," said senior Nick Haas.
"Why are there toilets in the JUUL room," joked junior Lucas Coulter.
The entire situation has surprised Mrs. Paine.
For many teens it starts out as a social conformity, but then it turns into an addiction.
Most students responded with simple phrases like "JUULing is cool" or "I only JUUL because it makes me cool" or "Getting that buzz makes my day" when asked why they do it.
Others elaborated a little deeper into the subject.
Likewise, other students relate to its normality in students' lives today.
Take public education out of the equation, and some students have a different perspective.
Still, most students are grounded in their philosophies regarding their mental and physical state of being.
Some blame the mindset of the perpetrators.
Two Flathead High School students and one outside student broke into FHS on Saturday Jan. 20. However, the school was not financially affected in any way, for the students broke into the locker rooms and took objects from the lost and found.
"They got into the school through an unlocked door," Dennis Bain said. "Luckily the school wasn't affected and the students who broke in are currently facing charges."
FHS students were shocked this happened to the school again, and are becoming even more concerned.
"Kids who feel like they need to steal from the school just want the satisfaction of breaking in," senior Angela Denison said. "It makes me mad that people think it's okay to vandalize things and break into places. Just a couple years ago kids trashed the school and they had no right to do that."
Senior Isaac Glace agreed with this.
"We preach so much about school safety and locking the doors that we actually forgot to act upon what we say," Glace said. "We get comfortable, let some security slide, and boom, just like that some more stuff gets taken from our school. It's ridiculous that the very people who cram safety down our throats, are the very people who leave us open to crime like this. As for the three students who busted in, shame on them for sure, but oddly enough I somewhat thank them for reminding us that we can always get better with our school safety."
Since the school has already been broken into twice, students are starting to question their safety and what the school is doing about preventing more break-ins.
"I'm glad it was only things from the lost and found stolen," senior Hunter Driear said. "It surprises me that they got in with how secure the school appears to be. It brings me to wonder if the safety measures at the school are simply theatre, or if they are truly functional and keeping us safe."
It has also been reported that the schools bullying has been taken to a whole new level, for a student had their property damaged. This incident has bothered many students and staff.
"It's completely unnecessary and unacceptable," junior Anja Parmer said. "They were treated poorly and actually had things damaged. I believe that it should be paid for by whoever did it. The school says bullying isn't tolerated, but haven't really done anything to help this student.
Additionally, other problems have begun to arise within FHS. The school received a threat from a man, who was not a former student, on Wednesday, Feb. 6. He posted on his Facebook account that if he did not receive mental help, he was either going to shoot up a school, bank, or anywhere for that matter.
"He didn't specify what school he would try to shoot up, so we had to be careful," Bain said. "We ended up having officers at every school, and they each knew what type of car he was driving. They soon located him at a business up north, and he wasn't even near a school. This day in age, you just have to be super careful."
Students were more than relieved when they found out he was caught.
"I think that it's good we caught him, but we should keep a better eye on social media post concerning our school," senior Mackenzie Ramer said. "We must ensure the safety of students and possibly get ahead of the problems."
Flathead County's police Department caught the thief that broke into Flathead High School, over Christmas vacation on Dec. 27, 2018.
The thief was caught breaking into many other buildings downtown, which led them into even further investigation.
"We had enough circumstantial evidence to connect him to the previous break in," Dennis Bain said.
Though the police have taken him into custody, his name is yet to be released. However, it was confirmed that the thief was not a former students and is in his early thirties.
"We can not release his name yet since he is a very well-known person in town," Bain said.
However, FHS students formed their own opinion on the matter.
Other FHS students were relieved the thief was caught, and in the custody of police.
Flathead sports and activity buses have broken down throughout the state this year. Most notably, the football spirit bus broke down outside of Butte on the way to the state football game in Billings.
Changes for traveling across all sports and activities have occurred in part due to necessity out of recent budget cuts. Multiple sports are now required to share buses with glacier including volleyball, wrestling, and boys and girls basketball. Other activities such as speech and debate have had buses so full that coaches had to drive separately.
"Its cost efficient if we're sending two buses that are half loaded, so it makes sense to send one," said Athletic Director Mr. Bryce Wilson.
He added that the issue is not strictly related to money instead of the small amount of drivers available this year.
"We identified JV and varsity wrestling trips to save money," said Wilson. This included sharing busses with Glacier.
The bus brake downs continued this winter as well on the boys' basketball team trip to Great Falls that had some unexpected passengers.
"The power steering went out on their (Glacier's) bus and we had to pull in behind them and some of their freshman team got on our bus," said senior basketball player, Seth Moon.
Next year there are major changes coming to the "AA" division of the Montana High School Association. Belgrade High School will be added to the current fourteen AA schools next year followed by an additional Bozeman school that will open in 2020.
The changes will be felt throughout all sports, but the most notable for next year will be football. The addition of Belgrade to the Eastern conference next year will move Butte High School back to the Western conference creating unequal numbers with 8 teams in the West and 7 in the East.
The uneven conference schedules lead the AA athletic directors to change the format of next year's playoffs. Teams will only play seven conference games and two on conference games for a total of nine. The first round of the playoffs will be the tenth game and based only on conference schedule meaning the 1 seed in the West would play the 8, the two seed will play the seven and so on. In the East with less teams the 1 seed will have a by against the second Bozeman school, which will not have opened in time for next year.
The 8 winning teams who advance will then be reseeded 1-8 using the current strength of schedule format used for the "AA" playoffs previously.
The new teams will also mean a change in competition for all AA schools including Flathead.
He added that sports such as football will be a struggle for the teams new to the AA, but Belgrade's volleyball team is expected to be very competitive.
Belgrade's a competitive "A" program and if they keep their numbers up they'll be fine said, Flathead football team defensive coordinator Matt Upham.
The addition of the two teams from the Gallatin Valley will affect Bozeman High who seems to be perennially competitive across the "AA" in every sport.
"I'm just excited for more competition," said junior basketball, volleyball and track athlete.
A man with a mask on broke into Flathead High School's activities office around 3:00 a.m., on Tuesday Dec. 11.
ce it is unclear what the suspect actually looked like. There are no cameras by the activities office, including no alarms, which upset many students and parents.
Senior Jasmine Morrison had her own theory on the subject.
While other students showed their sympathy towards to school.
"I think it's very disappointing to think someone would do this, especially to a high school," senior Meghan Fisher said. "But I know this won't go unnoticed and whoever did this will surely get caught. This has made me very upset."Junior Kennedy Kanter also explained how upset this break in made her.
Resource Officer Dennis Bain stated, that even if the school had gotten better footage of the robber, there would still be an unclear view of the male's face.
Aside from the office being broken into, there were two cases of theft reported from the locker room, and the dressing room. Teachers and staff push that students continue to use their assigned lockers so there are less cases of theft, and less problems in the locker and dressing rooms.
Last year a Tuberculosis outbreak hit the Flathead Valley and most notably, the school district. While Tuberculosis doesn't seem to be making a comeback another bacteria known as Pertussis is taking its place.
Pertussis, more commonly referred to as Whooping Cough, is a bacterial infection that affects the throat and nose. This infection causes its carrier to let out a loud "whoop" sound when they attempt to return air to their lungs after a large and violent cough. This is how it gets its name.
Zithromax is an antibiotic that specifically treats diseases like Bronchitis, which has had a minor effect at Flathead compared to Whooping Cough, Pneumonia, various ear and skin infections, and of course Whooping Cough. It is to be noted that Zithromax can be used for other diseases as well that will not be listed.
Bronchitis also affected Flathead during the year, while it has not been nearly as prominent. "It affects mostly your nose and your lungs," Sophomore Parker Stocklin, a victim of Bronchitis, said "The biggest thing about it though is that it clogs up your lungs with mucus…With what I had, I couldn't really breathe." While Pertussis has been the main contender of the outbreaks this year, Bronchitis is still a big deal and is potentially life threatening.
Four Flathead High School teachers won nearly $5,000 on Tuesday, Nov. 13, from the Kalispell Education Foundation at its grant awards ceremony at Bonjour Bakery & Bistro to enhancing the education of students.
Almost $20,000 was awarded to 13 different teachers and organizations in six schools from District 5. High school students will benefit from things like technology advancements in theatre, to introducing a support group for mental health.
The four FHS teachers that won grants were Mr. Michael Sherman, Mrs. Marti Paugh, Mrs. Wendy Putzler, and Mr. Mike Kelley. Mr Sherman won $1,000 for Students Assisting Students Support Groups. Mrs. Paugh received $2,000 to set up Southside Coffee. Mrs. Putzler was awarded $856 for the theatre department. And Mr. Kelley was granted $1,109 for a Pursuing the Trades project.
Kalispell Education Foundation, or KEF, is a non-profit that has been dedicated to support the efforts of the Kalispell Schools by enhancing the education of students, as it has continued to do over the past 12 years.
Mr. Sherman's support group will foster trust building, and give students an opportunity to give and receive support at school to enhance student academic performance.
Mrs. Putzler is excited for the grant in support of the theatre program.
Students will be able "try out" or design light and sound plots without being confined to the booth. This would allow all students the chance to design lights.
Thirty students of Flathead High school donated a pint of blood to the Red Cross Blood Drive on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Social Studies Resource Center.
With 30 students donating a pint apiece, the total of 30 pints was the most from an FHS blood drive compared to previous years. The collection from last year's fall blood drive had to be thrown away because of the infestation of bugs in the old gym. According to the 2016 newspaper of the Flathead Arrow, there was 24 pints of blood collected. All together it made this year's blood drive a success.
There were a variety of goals for students who donated in the blood drive. For some students, it was the acknowledgement of saving a life by donating their blood. For others, skipping a class in the day was enough inspiration. And for some, to be able to have free food at the end of the draw was enough to get them to donate.
"I'm always pumped to give blood; I love it," senior Hannah Mriss, who has donated blood every time, said.
Junior Collin Dallen said that he thinks he will donate more of his blood in the future. Also, he liked the fact that they gave people free food.
Homecoming Friday for Flathead High School this year had a little extra spark to it. Students in Mr. Richard Peters's fourth period woods class were forced to evacuate on Friday, Oct. 5, when a fire started and smoke billowed out of the ventilation system and slowly filled the classroom.The fire alarm did not go off and ceiling sprinklers did not activate. But the Kalispell Fire Department was notified and quickly responded with a truck. "We got some embers off of a machine that got sucked into the vacuum system," Mr. Peters said.
Mr. Peters immediately turned off the ventilation system. If the vacuum had not been turned off, the fire would have spread throughout the entire duct system and been much more threatening. Senior Matthew Johnson was using a sander in the wood shop when he noticed smoke billowing out of the vacuum system.
"I used the sander, but I guess I had taken off too much wood, which slowed the sander down, which caused something in the sander to heat up and create a spark," Johnson said. Students were calm and collected while exiting the building and were patient as they waited for it to be safe to return to class. The fire department used saws to cut into the ventilation duct to get the embers out. Mr. Peters said that this scenario has happened before in his second year of teaching, but it wasn't as bad as this one. "I called the fire department because we do not have a fire alarm out here," Mr. Peters said. "The fire department only took about three minutes to respond". No one was harmed in the fire, and it was extinguished before very much damage was caused to the shop.
The Flathead High School football team has a new single-season rushing record.
With two games left in the regular season, senior running back Blake Counts surpassed 2003 graduate Lex Hilliard's single-season rushing record by running for 217 yards against Great Falls CMR on Oct. 12 at Great Falls's Memorial Stadium.
It was his fifth 200-yard rushing game of the season. Now, after two more games to finish the regular season, he posted another 200-yard game and currently has 1,859 yards with 18 rushing touchdowns... with the playoffs looming for the fourth-ranked 7-3 Braves heading into a home playoff game against Billing Senior on Friday.
"It felt great; it's a huge accomplishment, not only for me but for the entire Braves team of 2019," Counts said.
The 6-foot, 205-pounder has 2,088 yards from scrimmage and 23 total touchdowns so far this year. He has been nominated for Gatorade Player of the Year.
Flathead head football coach Kyle Samson said Counts understands blocking schemes and reads players and alignments really well, but "his No. 1 thing that makes him a great runner is his vision and the ability to break tackles," said Coach Samson.
Counts gives a lot of the credit to his offensive line. Flathead's offensive line is one of the largest in the state, with all of them being around 6-foot-3 and weighing an average of 252 pounds.
"The offensive line is the reason Blake has his success," running backs coach Travis Dean said. "Without the big guys up front, he can't do his job."
Junior center Max Anderson and senior guard Sebastian Koch are the captains of the offensive line. Junior Cole Dalager is the other guard with seniors Patrick Hammond and Andrew Siderius anchoring the tackle positions. But they understand how special Counts is.
"As an O lineman, it's really important to get our blocks, but if you miss one, it's not that big of a deal because Blake will break the tackles," Anderson said.
With quarterback Jaden MacNeil accounting for 993 rushing yards as well, the Braves have a total of 3,021 rushing yards this season as a team thanks to the linemen.
"We're just coming together as a family in the huddle," Koch said. "The O line has his back and he's got our back and we can count on each other to get the job done."
Hilliard, a former Montana Grizzly and NFL running back, held the record for the past 18 years with 1,384 yards during his sophomore season in 2000. In 2016, Josh McCracken came close to the record during his senior season.
Counts is close to the Class AA state record for rushing yards in a season, which is held by C.M. Russell's Andrew Grinde with 2,180 yards in 2014. The Braves potentially have three more games left in the season, with Friday's first-round game against defending state champion Billing Senior. A first-round victory will probably pit the Braves against No. 2 Billings West in the semifinals on Nov. 9. The state championship will be played on Nov. 16.
A new attendance policy took Flathead High School students by storm to start the academic year.
Simply put, attendance is now worth 10 percent of a student's semester grade. After five absences in a class, the grade begins dropping by two percent for every absence after that, up until a cap of 10 percent total.
As expected, students have had mixed opinions about it.
The incentive comes off as more of a double-edged sword in the eyes of many students. One of the arguments against the policy claims students who could be extremely sick would still come to school in fear of either losing their incentive or losing a percentage of their grades. Nearly all students interviewed agreed that the possibility of an outbreak is just that, a possibility.
Whether students like or dislike the new policy, one thing is evident during the first couple months of school: The policy is working.
One of the issues at stake at FHS was that 60 percent of freshmen last year earned at least one F on their report cards.
Still, others disagree with the policy because of doctor and dentist appointments.
Hinchey also expressed frustration as a hockey player. Sports like hockey and baseball are not school-sanctioned sports, so some students were under the impression that their non-school-related activity would hurt their grades. But that is not the case. Community activities like hockey and baseball count as community sponsored absences (as long as you get your absences approved by administration before the events), which do not count against students' attendance.
An observation from School Counselor Mr. Michael Sherman gave further insight on the limitations of the policy and the general emotional feedback students told him.
"A lot of students are worried about their grade because they'll suffer the 10% penalty if they miss the 10 absences," Sherman said. However, he does agree that it is beneficial to students and the school in the long run.
The construction that began last spring after the half floors were torn down has continued throughout the summer and into the current school year.
"It began to take shape in Aug with the pouring of concrete and steel (frames) going up," said Flathead Vice Principal Mr. Lincoln.
The construction was most noticeable to students and staff earlier in the year before the new boilers were installed. At that point the school had no heat, which made for some chilly fall mornings inside Flathead High School.
"That was terrible I would come in dreading to sit in this seat. I am very thankful that the heat is semi functioning in my class," said Senior Austin Thomas talking about his second period yearbook class.
Junior Abe Otto said everyone in his second period class with Mr. Eversol knew at the beginning of the year if you didn't bring a jacket you would be cold.
Fortunately the boilers were installed in the beginning of October and few days later the heat started working throughout the building.
In addition to the cold the smaller hallways and fewer classrooms have taken their toll on the space throughout the high school.
Mr. Lincoln described the situation saying we have lost the middle stairways in what used to be the half-floors and senior hall has been shrunk down to accommodate the new construction.
This has made getting around the school difficult for some students and the reasons behind it have become disputed among different students.
Of the six major ballot issues in the local 2018 election, Flathead High School students' mock election results lined up with only half of the state of Montana's real results from Nov. 6.
Of FHS's 1,407 students, 582 participated in the mock election on Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Social Studies Resource Center. The students voted for all of the Republican candidates, as well as passed all of the initiatives.
FHS students were not in line with the statewide Senate race results, nor two ballot measures. They did vote similar to the rest of the state in the House of Representative race and two other ballot measures.
In probably the biggest ballot race -- the Senate race between Matt Rosendale, R, and Jon Tester, D -- 52.4 percent of FHS students voted for Rosendale. However, Tester won the real statewide vote 50.1 percent to 47.0 percent.
"I'm really happy John Tester won because he was obviously the best candidate," junior Abby Diaddezio said.
While other students were very upset with the results.
"I'm disappointed that John Tester won because I believed Matt Rosendale was so much better," junior Ayden Glencross said.
The 2018 midterm election was very important to the nation because of President Donald Trump's agenda. The Republicans maintained their Senate majority by holding 51 seats, as of Friday at 11:44 a.m. There were still three races across the nation that were too close to call.
In the House of Representative race between Greg Gianforte, R, and Kathleen Wiliams, D, FHS students voted along the same lines as the rest of the state, placing Gianforte into office. He secured 63.8 percent of the students' votes while across the state, 51.1 percent voted for him, according to the New York Times website.
The closest ballot measure in the statewide election turned out to be the I-185, to increase taxes on tobacco products to offset the costs of Medicaid. FHS voted to pass the initiative with 59.8 percent vote. However, the state did not pass it, with only 47.1 percent of the population wanting it.
"At first I was really shocked that the ballot measure didn't pass, but then I realized how obvious it was that it wouldn't have passed anyway," senior Melissa Gullien said.
Ballot measure I-186, which limited new hard rock mining, did not pass with the population only voting for 56 percent. This contradicted the FHS students vote for the ballot measure, with 59.8 percent for it.
"I was actually pleasantly surprised that this ballot measure didn't pass because I also didn't vote for it," junior Brielle Hammer.
Students lined up to vote either on their own time or during assigned class periods, depending on their last name. This created a real-life experience for young voters, which many students appreciated. However, other students found it very disappointing compared to last years set up.
"I believe the mock elections were a lot more unprofessional this year because last year they were very organized, and actually looked like an election ballot," senior Colter Goss said.
Students voted based on many different factors. Some voted based on their parents political opinion, while others voted based on research they had done prior to the elections.
Overall mock elections were a success at FHS, leaving students with a similar real-lie experience when it comes for their time to actually vote.